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Gordon, Joshua – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
Explicit pronunciation instruction enhances production of intelligible, comprehensible, and fluent second language (L2) speech. Additionally, task-based instruction (TBI) enhances the production of segmentals and suprasegmentals, and promotes awareness of L2 forms in pronunciation. Since most previous research on TBI in L2 pronunciation learning…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Speech Communication, Pronunciation Instruction, Teaching Methods
Nathan, Mitchell J.; Schenck, Kelsey E.; Vinsonhaler, Rebecca; Michaelis, Joseph E.; Swart, Michael I.; Walkington, Candace – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Grounded and embodied cognition (GEC) serves as a framework to investigate mathematical reasoning for proof (reasoning that is logical, operative, and general), insight (gist), and intuition (snap judgment). Geometry is the branch of mathematics concerned with generalizable properties of shape and space. Mathematics experts (N = 46) and nonexperts…
Descriptors: Mathematical Logic, Validity, Geometry, Knowledge Level
Pizer, Ginger – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Families with deaf parents and hearing children often demonstrate bimodal bilingualism, using both a signed and a spoken language. This study uses an audience design framework to analyze the home language use of two bimodal bilingual families in the United States. The school-age children in these families appeared to design their utterances for…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Speech Communication
Rozak, Refi Ranto; Saleh, Mursid; Bharati, Dwi Anggani Linggar; Sutopo, Djoko – Arab World English Journal, 2021
This article reports the use of similar news stories in narrow listening in an Extensive Listening course to promote student teachers' listening fluency in an Indonesian initial teacher education context. This study was to investigate: (1) What is the patterns of interaction of Indonesian student teachers of English regarding their listening…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Listening Comprehension, Language Fluency, Teacher Education Programs
Michael Dean Knapp – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Practice is necessary for developing oral English proficiency, but many Chinese learners of English lack the self-confidence to practice oral English; furthermore, students' self-confidence deficiency is perpetuated by insufficient oral English proficiency. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to discover pedagogical practices that break…
Descriptors: Chinese, Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Choi, Jungyoun; Sung, Min-Chang – English Teaching, 2020
This study examines L2 fluency in speaking interactions based on the number and type of utterances. The participants were 25 Korean eighth-grade learners of English as a foreign language. They performed five communicative tasks in groups, and their speaking interactions were audio-recorded and analyzed to measure the frequencies of sentence-level…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Fluency, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Suzuki, Shungo; Kormos, Judit – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
This study examined the linguistic dimensions of comprehensibility and perceived fluency in the context of L2 argumentative speech elicited from 40 Japanese-speaking learners of English. Their speaking performance was judged by 10 inexperienced native speakers of English for comprehensibility and perceived fluency, and was also objectively…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Accuracy, Language Processing, Speech Communication
Wang, Qiao – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
The study is the second in a series of mixed-methods studies on the integration of The Sims 4, a life-simulation game, into language classrooms. In this study, the researcher explores the effect of game-based language learning (GBLL) on students' English communicative competence from three aspects, interaction, fluency and content, in a Japanese…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Language Fluency, Second Language Learning
Chou, Mu-Hsuan – Education 3-13, 2020
Researchers and language teachers have become increasingly aware of the importance of multi-word items in developing fluency and sounding native-like in English. Nevertheless, understanding and using English phrasal verbs can be challenging and limiting for learners in an EFL environment; offering opportunities to maximise their use of phrasal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Comprehension
Christina Garcia; Dan Nickolai; Lillian Jones – CALICO Journal, 2020
This paper presents a 15-week classroom study measuring the student outcomes of instructor-led pronunciation lessons versus entirely ASR-based pronunciation training. Seventy-six second-semester Spanish language learners were divided into two groups, one experimental (n=44) and one control (n=32). Over the course of six modules, both groups…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Assisted Instruction, Spanish, Second Language Instruction
Hoda Ahmed Yousry Mohammed – Online Submission, 2024
The aim of the current study is to investigate the effect of using life wide learning approach on developing English language Fluency for prep. stage students in the official Language Schools. The study adopted the one-group pre-post experimental design, with a pre-post fluency test along with a triangulation method that integrates both…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Fluency, Learning Processes
Marwa F. Hafour – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Owing to the plethora of user-friendly audio/video creation and editing applications as well as free full-featured hosting platforms, videoing and sharing has become a lifestyle of today's students. Utilizing these spontaneous practices, the current study examined the effects of digital media assignments (DMAs) and accompanying asynchronous…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Video Technology
Duijm, Klaartje; Schoonen, Rob; Hulstijn, Jan H. – Language Testing, 2018
It is general practice to use rater judgments in speaking proficiency testing. However, it has been shown that raters' knowledge and experience may influence their ratings, both in terms of leniency and varied focus on different aspects of speech. The purpose of this study is to identify raters' relative responsiveness to fluency and linguistic…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Accuracy, Second Languages, Language Tests
Pakendorf, Brigitte; Aralova, Natalia – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2018
Negidal is a Northern Tungusic language closely related to Evenki with two recognized dialects, Upper and Lower Negidal. This nearly extinct language used to be spoken in the Lower Amur region of the Russian Far East by people whose traditional way of life was based on fishing and hunting. While the number of remaining active speakers of Upper…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition, Language Fluency, Language Research
The Impact of Sentence Length and Complexity on Fluency in Turkish-English Simultaneous Interpreting
Eraslan, Seyda – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
This study was designed as an explorative, descriptive, and observational/ experimental study. With a fluency oriented approach to quality, it aims at presenting and discussing the results of an experiment designed so as to explore the impact of sentence length and complexity on quality in Turkish-English SI. In addition, the self perceptions of…
Descriptors: Translation, Turkish, Language Fluency, Self Concept